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Altruistic behavior is a behavior that an individual within a group executes to reduce its fitness for themself but helps out and increases the fitness of the other members of its social group.

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Characteristics of Altruistic behavior in variety of species are similar. Their goal is to help the other group members around them have better fitness at the same time reducing its own fitness for the benefit of others. These are some characteristics of altruistic behavior. Different species of animals have different ways of executing this behavior, but all animals have the same goal.

- An organism executes this behavior if it detects a nearby predator so it reveals itself to the predator and other members of its social group in order to signal a nearby predator to its social group.

- When an organism executes this behavior, it reduces its chances of reproducing and making offspring but at the same time boosts other members of its social group's chances of reproducing and making offspring.

- An animal like a Springbok is a well known animal to execute this type of behavior. Whenever it spots a predator nearby, it reveals itself to the predator and members of its social group for the benefit of the social group.

- When animals execute this type of behavior, it believes that its group is more important than itself which makes it why many animals execute this behavior.

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Springboks are animals that execute altruistic behavior in order to increase the fitness of other members of its social group. Springboks hop on all four legs when they spot a predator nearby, or otherwise known as "pronking." When Springboks pronk, they alert a nearby predator to other members of its social group so they can have enough time to evacuate the area and survive and at the same time, the Springbok who executes this behavior is most likely dead by the time a predator sees it.

Here is a video showcasing on how Springboks pronk in order to help the other individuals of its social group.

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Surprisingly, dolphins execute altruistic behavior to humans. Studies have shown that Dolphins have helped humans from a shark attack in numerous cases before by revealing itself to the human who is visible on the ocean.

Here is a video showing how dolphins execute Altruistic behavior in order to reduce its fitness but increase the fitness of a family stranded in water near sharks.

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Dolphins protect family from great white shark

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Meerkats are other animals that execute Altruistic behavior. Typically when pups are present in a social group, adult meerkats or meerkats in general climb to higher vantage places to spot for predators in order to promote a higher fitness for its pups. Although most studies show that meerkats execute this type of behavior with pups, meerkats also do this to protect many meerkats in its social group without pups as well. By an individual meerkat, usually an adult meerkat, an adult meerkat climbs to higher vantage points or places to scout out for enemies and once that individual finds predators nearby, it signals itself to the predator and other meerkats within the social group as well promoting fitness to its social group but decreasing its fitness as an individual.

Here is a video showcasing a study in Cambridge University that has been studying on how meerkats scanning techniques are altruistic.

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Research suggests meerkat predator-scanning behaviour is altruistic

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In order to spot potential predators, adult meerkats often climb to a higher vantage point or stand on their hind legs. If a predator is detected, they use several different alarm calls to warn the rest of the group.

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Why Altruistic Behavior Has Become an Adaptation to Animals.

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Why Altruistic Behavior Has Become an Adaptation to Animals.

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Although all different species of animals execute Altruistic behavior differently, they all accomplish the same goal and expectation. The reasons why Altruistic behavior has become an adaptation to many animals who execute it, is because of one thing, to increase fitness for other members of its social group by sacrificing itself. Here are some other ways Altruistic behavior has become an adaptation.

- With an increase of fitness for other members of an animal's social group, it increases the chances of it reproducing and carrying traits.

- When an individual executes this type of behavior and when a predator sees it, the predator goes for that individual who saw each other and that individual alerts the other members of its social group to escape.

- Altruistic behavior makes it so that a population stays stable and makes it able to pass on adaptations of traits to offspring.

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Humans may be on the very top of the food chain but many animals are quite fascinating and interesting in their own way. With the many species of organisms that we can see, has many ways of interacting with one another. If that requires an individual to sacrifice itself for the well being of others, social behavior is something that is quite uniquely beneficial amongst many animals we have today. Many different types of animals have a way on contacting its social group through social behavior in order to keep each other best fit for their environment. Some animals sing, some animals dance, some animals hunt well, and etc. The many different variations and ways of how each specie interacts with one another is quite interesting. As each type of animal has their own way of interacting with each other, it benefits each other in the long run as it is basically something that is amongst them. A bird cannot understand a snake, and a snake cannot understand a bird. With the many and different ways species interact with one another whether it is to help each other out, or warn if predators are near by are many ways of beneficial advice that each individual specie can provide for one another.

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